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On Tokyo Tarareba Girls
Jul. 3rd, 2019 12:21 amPity the foolish maiden who went on a two-week journey to the land of a vital manga market with the small suitcase, only to discover that oh crap, I love Tokyo Tarareba Girls. Six volumes are out in German this far, and to be fair, I'm promised 50% off of some textbooks relevant for work so I might just be shipping a box home anyway.
I've only read the first of those six volumes, but I like it a lot and I've no doubt I'll get the rest. It's not mindblowing at this point, but it's cute and it's funny and it's touching onto a topic that I'd love to say I was self-assured enough to not be dwelling on on occasion even though I'm both comfortable and confident in my asexuality. And to be fair, I don't think it's so much the non-confidence in the fact that the only time in my life I've wanted a romantic relationship was when I was the unpopular girl who still spent more time fantasizing about being BFFs with one of the popular girls. Rather, it's that extremely pervasive mindset that a woman is a "girl" until she's married and mothered. It's a mindset that is being criticised here (the afterword goes into great detail about that), but it's still one that hits closer to home than I'd like. I might write more about that whenever I've read the full manga, but suffice it to say that there was an uncomfortable level of recognition here for ladies who are single at thirty-three (or four, as the case might be).
I also picked up one of the "special collections" of Detective Conan, this one with the focus on the "life and death situations". It's got the one the bomb in the tower where there's apparently some real Takagi/Sato development, so I clearly need it. It's also got bits with some of the other characters I never got around to by following the publishing order, so I guess that's exciting. Best of all, the first case had a real shippy moment between Conan and Ai and I am easy. But mostly I just love that dumb detective comic a lot okay, and I wish the English-speaking internet would open its eyes to it already.
I've only read the first of those six volumes, but I like it a lot and I've no doubt I'll get the rest. It's not mindblowing at this point, but it's cute and it's funny and it's touching onto a topic that I'd love to say I was self-assured enough to not be dwelling on on occasion even though I'm both comfortable and confident in my asexuality. And to be fair, I don't think it's so much the non-confidence in the fact that the only time in my life I've wanted a romantic relationship was when I was the unpopular girl who still spent more time fantasizing about being BFFs with one of the popular girls. Rather, it's that extremely pervasive mindset that a woman is a "girl" until she's married and mothered. It's a mindset that is being criticised here (the afterword goes into great detail about that), but it's still one that hits closer to home than I'd like. I might write more about that whenever I've read the full manga, but suffice it to say that there was an uncomfortable level of recognition here for ladies who are single at thirty-three (or four, as the case might be).
I also picked up one of the "special collections" of Detective Conan, this one with the focus on the "life and death situations". It's got the one the bomb in the tower where there's apparently some real Takagi/Sato development, so I clearly need it. It's also got bits with some of the other characters I never got around to by following the publishing order, so I guess that's exciting. Best of all, the first case had a real shippy moment between Conan and Ai and I am easy. But mostly I just love that dumb detective comic a lot okay, and I wish the English-speaking internet would open its eyes to it already.
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